Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-02-03
FACTS AS TO FEVERs.
Timely Hints Relative to Typhoid and Its
Treatment.

out in cold perspiration when in great
terror and cause the hot blood to rush
10 another's face by u word Grief and
anxiety turn the body from paths of
health, and sometimes actually modify
the nutrition to such an extent that
great changes take place. The hair may
turn gray or burrows and wrinkles come
in the face. ....E-.
1t is q well-known fact that nearly
every student of medicine, in his early
attempts to acquire medical lore. will in
turn have well-marked symptoms of
every disease he reads about Those
who are not accustomed to daily contact
with diseases, and are easily impressed,
should not read descriptions of human
ills. and should avoid medical books.
especially the pseudo scientific medical
books classed as popular" such as
Everybody His Own Physician" '.Dr.
So-and-so's Home Treatment" and
their like. H.. ,r...
The tendency that people have-that
is, the tendency to think they have the
very symptoms of which they reads
one of the bogus Doctors strongholds.
He will detail long list of symptoms
which may be indicative of half dozen
diseases, and the reader. who probably
does not feel well, finding that three or
four of the symptoms fit him exactly,
paying no regard to the many laid down
which do not fit him, thinks this is the
very medicine, or the very doctor, he
wants. ...|.. l. ..
There are class of persons who may
be called chronic medicine-takers. On
the other hand, there are others who go
to the opposite extreme and take none
whatever. These are the extremes Of
the evil, and both are bad. There are
many who take so much medicine that
their systems become habituated to the
commoner remedies, and when the ne
cessity arises for them to receive some
treatment then the usual doses are with
out proper effect On the other hand,
the ones who have prejudice against
any remedy whatever are frequently
sufferers thereby. There is an instance
in this city where well-known man
recently lost his life by refusing treat
ment.
The great thing is to know just when
to apply to one skilled and trained in
the healing art There are people by
the score who, if they want an opinion
in the matter of theology or law, 60 at
once to theologian OF u lawyer, but
when health is at stake, matter
worthy of learned opinion, instead of
applying to the doctor in whom they
have confidence, go rather to q charlatan
or seek relief in some of the many nos
trums constantly upon the shelves of
the druggists. I'd iii
N is not intended here to depreciate
the simple remedies of household use
which have been found time and time
again to be of so much benefit, but the
approach of some diseases Are SO insid-
ious that the gravity is not at once re-
cognized, and self-administered remedies
frequently do harm. This is often the
case where purgatives are taken at the
beginning of typhoid fever.
Fevers, and especially typhoid, are
not always easy to recognize at the out
set. 1t is frequently the case that the
medical attendant will remark: "You
are threatened with fever" There is
no such thing. Either the patient has
or has not fever, and when you are told
that you are "threatened' it is only a
makeshift to put you off until the dis
ease develops enough to enable the med
ical attendant to determine.
The province of the physician is not
to cure typhoid-fevers, because this can
not be done; but TO watch the case,
note the symptoms, and guide and assist
nature in her endeayors to cope with
the disease, until it arrives at success
full issue.
The first symptoms Of the disease are
headache, loss Of appetite, pains in the
limbs and back, and increase of bodily
heat, which is most marked in the eve
nmg. Frequently the patient will be
panied and restless in the evening and
fore part of the night, but after the turn
of the night fall into a sweet and re-
freshing sleep, which. if not disturbed,
lasts far into the morning. After the
first. few days the face gets very heavy
and oxpressionless, the evening tempera.
ture gets more marked, the tongue coat.
ed with little triangular red space al
the tip and tenderness to pressure on
the right side of the abdomen.
When this points reached it is usual,
ly well-marked case of fever, but the
first-named symptom, may be indicative
of half-dozen other diseases.
There is disease which so nearly
Stimulates typhoid fever that many are
deceived by it-many who are not only
well informed in matters pertaining to
the sick room, but even. physicians
That is poisoning from gas. This may
be sewer-gas or Illuminating gas II
has been noticed in this city frequently
a"long those who work in the gas tren
% $. or people living near by where
earth impregnated with gas has been
thrown up and allowed to lie. 1t ha:
every symptom of fever except the ten
derness in the abdomen. This disease
lasts for about a week, or less, provided
the patient gets good air to breathe
He will require the services of physi
clan only to make the diagnosis.
just what the causes of typhoid fever
are is very hard to say. At times it car
be traced positively to some we'll whicf
is rendered foul by tiltering from ar
adjacent deposit or refuse material o.
some sort, but this is one Of the diseases
which attack alike the kings palace
and the beggar's hovel. 1.-a ! l.
The physician is frequently askec
whether or not this disease is ''catch
ing" In one sense it is, and another il
is not. The disease Is communicated
from one to another by means of some
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